PenTrans Board member
Jason Duckworth leads discussion.

Road Safety and High Speed Cameras

PenTrans Breakfast Forum

Jan. 31, 2014

PenTrans Annual

Members - Platinum

PenTrans Annual

Members - Gold

PenTrans Annual

Members - Silver

PenTrans Annual
Sustaining Members - Bronze

PenTrans Annual
Sustaining Members
- Change Agent

PenTrans Board of Directors

Co-Chairs

Beverly Harper

Portfolio Associates, Inc.

Thomas J. Spearing, III.

Hill International, Inc.

Secretary-Treasurer

Tom Halterman

Urban Engineers, Inc.

Mark Alisesky
Michael Baker Corp.

Edward M. D'Alba

Urban Engineers, Inc.

Richard Amodei

STV, Inc.

Bert Cossaboon

McCormick Taylor

Peter Denitz

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Jason Duckworth

Arcadia Land Company

Dan Faust

AECOM

Yassmin Gramian
HNTB

Alex Houseal
URS

Eli Khoury
HDR

Adam Krom

Amtrak

Kate O'Connor
Jacobs

Carol Rose

WTS

Anna Lynn Smith
Parsons Brinckerhoff

Richard P. Voith

Econsult Solutions, Inc.

Emille L. Williams
COMTO

Executive Director

Peter Javsicas

PenTrans Member Organizations

AECOM

Bombardier

CH2MHILL

COMTO

DRM International, Inc.

Econsult Corp.

Gannett Fleming

HDR, Inc.

Hill International

HNTB

IBI Group

Jacobs Engineering

Jeffrey Parker & Associates, Inc.

LTK Engineering Services

Malady & Wooten LLC

McCormick Taylor

Michael Baker Jr.

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Portfolio Associates, Inc.

T&M Associates

SEPTA

STV, Incorporated

Traffic Planning and Design, Inc.

TranSystems

Urban Engineers, Inc.

URS Corp.

WTS

PenTrans Update

Feb. 7th, 2014

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Our Thanks!

HDR
Has stepped up from BRONZE to SILVER Annual Sustaining Membership!

Pennsylvania

SEPTA Holds Another Public Meeting
On Major Long-Term Rail Project
-CBSPhilly

Pennsylvania Transportation Alternatives
Program Now Accepting Applications
Berks County TV

Routes for SEPTA rail extension
explored in Upper Merion
-Norristown Times Herald

Northeast PA rail industry picking up
-Scranton Times-Tribune

Philadelphia's public transit system
ranked among best in country
-Philadelphia Business Journal

Philadelphia Achieves Land Bank
Through Compromise
-ShelterForce

What Snow Tells Us
About Creating Better Public Spaces
-This Old City

Biden stresses
infrastructure investment in Philly
-ABC27WHTM

App helps Pennsylvania
get its bridges back
-GCN

Tea Party Candidate's Attack
Against Spending Backfires
-BloombergBusinessWeek

New Jersey

N.J. Senate panel clears rail-merger plan

-Philadelphia Inquirer

New Jersey residents

want rail line, official says

-Wilkes-Barre Times Leader

NJ Transit approved nonbinding

agreement for light rail station

in northern Hoboken last year

-Hudson Reporter

Hackensack applies for

Transit Village Initiative

-Hackensack Chronicle

NJ Transit hearings on Sandy to expand;

Super Bowl, website also are issues

-Bergen Record

Nation & World

AARP celebrates introduction
of Senate Safe Streets bill
-AARP

Delaware Gov. Markell proposes
10-cent gas tax increase to pay
for state transportation projects
-Smyrna-Clayton Sun-Times

Big changes for Delaware transit agency
-newsworks

9 Reasons the U.S. Ended Up
So Much More Car-Dependent Than Europe
-The Atlantic Cities

How the Daily Commute
Hurts Civic Engagement
-Planetizen

America is on board
with public transportation
-nwi.com

Todd Litman
How Should We Measure Traffic Congestion?
-Planetizen

Thanks to the Super Bowl,
New York Has Its Very First
Regional Transit Map
-Atlantic Cities

Shaping our future cities: an art form
-The Planning Issue

Todd Litman
Location Optimization Tools: Toward More Comprehensive and Multi-Modal Indicators
-Planetizen

Book simplifies street redesigns
-University of Oregon

This Is What Informal Transit
Looks Like When You Actually Map It
-The Atlantic Cities

Program seeks to encourage more
transit use to reduce pollution.
UTA to offer 5,000 free weekly passes
-Salt Lake Tribune

Betty the Bike
Show your support for for the new Bicycle
and Pedestrian Infrastructure Financing Act
-The Jersey Journal

High Speed Rail-Go-Round

Plans For New England Rail Network Continue
-Hartford Courant

High Speed Rail Hearings in March
-Rockland County Times

HSR Boston to Albany and Beyond
-Curbed

Bullet train developers
eye station sites in Fort Worth,
Arlington, Dallas and Houston
-Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Talks full steam ahead
for high-speed route from
Oklahoma City to Mexico City
-Latina Lista

High-speed rail will benefit Texas, US
-Baylor Lariat

William Hume
Oregon should put HSR on fast track
-Portland Tribune

High-speed rail court battle heats up
-Hanford Sentinel

HSR court woes could spill over
to other public works projects
-San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Regional Plan Assoc. Forum

Feb. 27th: "Funding NYC's Transportation Infrastructure" (registration details here)

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Why U.S. Is Not

Energy Independent

Transportation sucks up too much oil

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Andy Singer Cartoon

PenTrans Advisory Group

Beverly Coleman
- Urban Ventures Group, Inc.
Joseph DiFiore

-PB

John Dockendorf

-PennDOT

Karen Gelman
         - Amtrak
Court Gould
         - Sustainable Pittsburgh
Joseph Guzzi
         - HNTB
Chris Jandoli

-Parsons Brinckerhoff

Carol Martsolf

-WTS

Patrick Starr
        - Penn Environmental Council
Julie Green
        - LTK Engineering Services
Vukan Vuchic
         - UPenn
Rick Wooten
   - Malady & Wooten

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